Waikoloa Christmas Parade

The whole town turned out for the Waikoloa Christmas parade! I met my girlfriends and thier kids down at the elementary school a block from our house to watch it. They had all kinds of keiki festivities at the school afterwards.... hula show, magician, jumping castle, food, etc. ... the kids were exausted!!!

Making Cookies!

We are re-starting a tradition of making sugar cookies this year! Every year growing up I loved to decorate cookies for Christmas. This year I went to 2 cookie exchange parties, so I needed to make a whole lot of cookies!! Rhett obviously can not decorate cookies yet, but her sure did like tasting the icing ;)

My Christmas Decorations

Last year I shopped the after Christmas sales to get lots of great decorations for our house. I have most everything put up... it's just weird becuase it is hot outside ;) I made garland to go across all of our sliders and matching wreaths to go on either side of our Tv cabinet. I had to pack away a lot of our regular decor to make room for the Christmas stuff! We have three trees this year.. a ful size one in our living area that is decorated in cranberry and gold (okay, garnet and gold!!! Go Noles! ha!!) a full size one in the playroom that has Hawaiiana decorations and a mini one that has all of our family/keepsake ornaments. We will have to switch out the mini one for a full size one as the years pass. I bought tons of lights to put up, but those aren't quite done yet. Mike did get up the icicle lights around the front and the two big 40' palms in the front have them going all the way up! I feel like our house has wires strung everywhere... I need to figure out a way to hide them all!!! Rhett couldn't care less about the trees, he is more interested in the plug and wires....UGH!

Arby's Cookies

Being that Mike is working 15 hour days this past week, I decided to make 'Arby's' cookies for the crew at our store as a thank you for thier hard work :) Rhett goes to bed around 7pm so I usually hve 3 1/2 hours to myself each night. In the past few days I have also made over 100 Christmas sugar cookies for some cookie exchange parties that I am going to. Now I just have to decorate them ;) UGH!

Freshly Napped

Rhett is so sweet when he wakes up from his nap. It is about the only time that he will sit with me and cuddle. I love it!!!! It usually is not long before he is back to his wild and curious antics, but I do cherish those moments of stillness with him :)

Blizzard warnings in Hawaii!!!???

The other day we had blizzard warnings for the top of Mauna Kea. We had atleast 9 straight hours of rain, which is very abnormal for our area that tends to be dry. The clouds finally cleared from the top of the mountain today and I was able to catch a picture. Some of the snow had already started to melt, but BOY was there a lot up there!!!

ARBY'S IS FINALLY OPEN!!

Whoohoo!! I am so proud to announce that our latest project is now up and running as of this morning at 10am!! Mike has done such a wonderful job making this a reality... way to go honey!!! The people were lined up to eat at Arby's.... helps that we are the first place to open in the food court ;)

Welcome Isaiah Kost!!

Congratulations Alika and Alex on the newest addition to the Kost klan!!! We are so excited to have a new nephew!!!

Daddy trying to feed Rhett...

Rhett has been getting pretty picky about what he eats.... only wants what we give him off of our plates. So Mike got creative and I think may be giving him some bad habits ;)

Birthday BOY!!!!!!!!

One year ago our lives were changed forever. Everette Michael Kost was born into this world with a big shake rattle and roll as the big Hawaii earthquakes shook our hostpital bed. I can't even believe that my little baby is already one year old. This has been the most amazing year of my life! We never could have imagined that we could love someone so much as we love Everette Michael :) We took these picture on his birthday, October 15th, at the same location that Mike and I had our engagement pictures made in 2004.

Swing Time

Sorry these are all out of order...

Today (before getting my haircut) we met Oma Kost for lunch and some swing time at the park. Rhett loves to swing!

Trying to walk

Just some silly pictures we took the other night of Rhett trying to walk. He has started to push his little car around the house until he runs into a wall or furniture. He also has a new word to use... "UH-Ooohh!" He started yesterday with it. I guess I say it too much becuase now whenever he drops something (on accident or on purpose) and wants it back he says it. Funny now, but we will see how long that lasts ;)

Rhett making funny noises...

Rhett has a new thing he does... it's this funny little sound. Kinda like a car. He does it alot when he is pushing around his truck. So cute! Such a boy! (Stinks that I have no idea how to rotate this video)

My new haircut!

Just got it done today...LOTS of inches were cut off... Like 8! What do you think?? bad pics.. rhett was soooo tired when we took these :(

Whew! It's been a while!!

Our church does the Baptisms in the Ocean! We have a great potluck picnic down on the beach one Sunday a month. Our friend Billy was baptised in August! What a gorgeous day it was!!




I know that it has been a while since the last post, so I am going to make an attempt to "catch you up" on the past couple of months :)

Sunday Brunch with Oma and Opa

You would think that all we do is eat out and go to the beach. I promise there is much more to our lives here ;) We had a wonderful Sunday brunch at the Hapuna Prince Hotel. I certainly had my fill of lobster, shrimp, sashimi, and sinful deserts!!!! Rhett, Mike and I went for a 4 mile walk last night to compensate!